[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 79 (Wednesday, June 21, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Page S5553]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    DUKES CELEBRATE 50TH ANNIVERSARY

 Mr. HOLLINGS. Mr. President, it is my pleasure to congratulate 
The Rev. and Mrs. Morgan Dukes of Summerville, S.C. who recently 
celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. During the past 50 years, 
Morgan and Marie Dukes have lived throughout South Carolina and in 
Washington, D.C. After Morgan graduated from the Southern Baptist 
Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, the couple moved to Bath, S.C. where 
Morgan led the congregation at First Baptist Church. He served as 
Director of Religious Activities at Furman University from 1958-1965 
and then as pastor of First Baptist Church in Walhalla.
  In 1970, Morgan and Marie moved to Washington, D.C., where Morgan was 
pastor of Brookland Baptist Church and later joined the staff of the 
Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs. For 15 years Marie worked as 
a secretary in the office of the Dean of the College of Engineering at 
the University of Maryland, College Park. They returned to South 
Carolina in 1990 to assist homeless men at the Star Gospel Mission in 
Charleston, a position from which Morgan retired in 1997. Marie worked 
for 10 years as a realtor in Summerville.
  The Dukes have accomplished a great deal in their 50 years of 
marriage and have enriched many communities in South Carolina and here 
in our nation's capital. Peatsy and I join with their friends and 
family, including their children Vicki, Betty Ann and David and 
granddaughter, Lauren, in celebrating this important milestone in their 
life together.

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